Lauren Cohan
If you look at Lauren Cohan\u2019s acting career, it\u2019s clear she has a knack for playing strong and feisty women. She\u2019s played a zombie killing badass in\xa0The Walking Dead, a secret agent in Peter Berg\u2019s thriller\xa0Mile 22, and now, she\u2019s chasing down international baddies in the action-packed ABC series\xa0Whiskey Cavalier. Rolling on the ground, shooting guns, and doing stunts can be exhausting work, but for Lauren it\u2019s the opposite. \u201cI naturally gravitate towards action. As soon as I started doing it, I felt exhilarated. I have an excess of adrenaline, so it\u2019s good for me to have a physical element to acting.\u201d\n\nLauren\u2019s career path wasn\u2019t always so certain. She spent years slogging through auditions where the only requirement was to be a \u201cbeautiful woman.\u201d She longed for the opportunity to do more, and that\u2019s when\xa0Walking Dead\xa0came along. \u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong, it\u2019s great to be an actor and get work because people want to see you onscreen, but when I got the role of Maggie, I was so relieved that it was a stripped down character study. I finally felt free.\u201d\n\nExploring the vast depth of human emotion is what ultimately drives her, even when she encounters moments or scenes that scare her. \u201cI keep going back to this idea of embracing the challenge. It\u2019s like, \u2018That sounds painful and difficult\u2026let me try it.\u2019\u201d\n\nLauren joins\xa0Off Camera\xa0to talk about the\xa0Walking Dead\xa0scene that terrified her so much that she almost quit, why there\u2019s no point in being an actor if you aren\u2019t willing to be vulnerable and uncomfortable, and why finding your inner lion is all part of a day\u2019s work.